Trump Claims His DC Hotel Is No Longer For Sale

The New York Post reports:

President Trump has confirmed that he had considered selling his hotel in Washington, DC, after spending more than $250 million renovating the iconic Beltway building — but said he has changed his mind.

“I was thinking about it,” he told The Post during an exclusive Oval Office interview. The Trump family purchased a 60-year lease on the 19th-century Old Post Office in 2013 before Trump won his White House bid.

But the president said he ultimately decided against it. “I like it. It does well,” he said. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal in October 2019, son Eric Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization, said the family was open to cashing out.

The Trump Hotel D.C.’s real estate sales rep declined to comment on whether the lease is off the market altogether.

Reps from the Trump Org did not respond to a request for comment.

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Here’s one #CraziestDamnThing we covered this week: The White House recently tried to include $2 billion in a coronavirus relief package to go towards building a new FBI Building in Washington, DC.https://t.co/dUMHAzX0ek

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Pelosi said that she believes the money for the new FBI building was included in the GOP plan to help with business for the Trump hotel. Schumer said Meadows and Mnuchin didn’t explain why the money was in there but they “acknowledged it (was included) when we asked.”

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